How to Use "instigate" with Example Sentences

1. Some factions in the government think opponents are spoiling to instigate an arab spring-style revolution .

2. Some even warned me that they would instigate a boycott of my books if I came .

3. Chief cabinet secretary osamu fujimura , after a government meeting discussing power shortages , said that there was a " need to widely instigate power-saving measures " due to the shutdown of nuclear facilities .

4. Anyone suggesting there was an ethnic basis to riots was " trying to instigate tension between different ethnic groups " .

5. If japan wants to instigate an armed conflict which may eventually involve china and the us on opposing sides , it would be a fantasy to imagine that any such conflict would enable one side to completely overwhelm the other without quickly escalating from a conventional war to a non-conventional war .